Improvement in devices for closing the end flaps of coin-wrappers



G. RET-TIG. Devicefor Closing the End-Flaps 0f Coin-Wrappers.

No. 209,985. Patented 1Nov 1'9, 87s;

UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE EETTIG. OF GHIGAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOALBERT RETTIG, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR CLOSING THE END FLAPS 0F COIN-WRAPPERS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 209,985, dated November19, 1878; application filed April 30, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE RE'ITIG, of Chicago, in the county of (lookand State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Machine andDevices for the Manufacture of Self-Counting Coin-Wrappers, as fully setforth in the following specification.

My invention relates to a machine for mannfacturin g cylindricalpasteboard coin-wrapper-s; and it consists in a peculiar machine bymeans of which a cylindrical form is given to the coin-wrapper, and bywhich the ends of the coin-wrapper are closed after the same has beenfilled with coin, as fully hereinafter explained.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the pasteboard blank. Fig. 2represents the machine for. forming the trough Fig. 3, the trough afterleaving the machine; Fig. 4, the open wrapper filled with coin, and Fig.5 the same after being closed up and sealed.

A is a rectangular piece of pasteboard intended to form thesemi-cylindrical shell of the coin-holding trough, and a a. are circularextensions to its four corners to form the ends of said trough, whichlatter are to'be of such exact diameter as the diameter of thedenomination of coin for which the wrapper is intended. This trough,forming the blank, I stamp out of a single piece of pasteboard, all withone operation.

For forming the trough A a, I use a machine like the one represented byFig. 2, which consists of a wooden or metal rectangular block, B,havinga semi-cylindrical groove,b, transversely cut in its upper face,and of a bifurcated lever, G, the two prongs c of which are pivoted tothe opposite sides of block B, their fulcrums (1 being vertically belowthe center of the semi-cylindrical groove 1).

E is a cylindrical core, preferably "made of wood, and being of adiameter and length corresponding With the exact size and number ofcoins to be wrapped therein. The rectangular portion A of the blank isbent over this core E, and both together are placed into thesemicylindrical groove I) of block B with the blank downward. The twocircular portions a of the blank are turned with the fingers against theends of the core E, and are coated with paste on their outward faces,after which, by imparting a rocking motion to the lever O, the prongs ofthe same will turn the blank extensions a/npon the extensions a on theends of the core E, and will compress the same solidly thereto, so thatthe intermediate paste will stick and hold them. After the coin-troughhas thus been made one end of the flap F is pasted to its shell, theother end of which flap is gummed for closing it over the coin. The

trough A a being filled with coin the flap F is wrapped around it andsealed, after which the side edges of said flap may be turned over theends of the thus-formed cylindrical package. The thus-formed pasteboardtrough will stiffen the wrapper, and because its ends are made of onepiece with the shell there is no chance for opening it withoutdetection.

What I claim as my invention is- The device described, consisting ofblock B, having semi-cylindrical groove 1), the bifurcated lever (J,pivoted to said block, and'the cylindrical core E, all constructed andarranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE RETTIG.

Wi tn esses:

J noon RICHTER, Loors KLINOKERFNER.

